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Ep. 119 Art History in Edinburgh Scotland, Cultural Capital, What's in Your Cultural Wallet? TheModernMoron podcast
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Happy Holidays from The Modern Moron recorded this day, the 25th of November, 2022. It’s Black Friday and there’s no place I would rather NOT be than a mall, A Walmart, a Best Buy or an Amazon. Also, I literally got back from the grocery store and I thought I was going to have to take out a Home Equity Loan. I just paid over $5 for a dozen eggs. What the ever-loving- @##$%? At what point is it going to be …. That’ll b e a dollar…. Another dollar…. Okay, two for one. Thanks Grandpa Joe… for all the inflation. It’s your fault. Your fault there’s global inflation. Whatever country your in, it’s that political leader’s fault that there is global inflation. If you live in Canada, Thanks Trudeau. If you live in China, thanks JinPing. Great Britain’s revolving door… thanks Sunak. Or can we still blame Boris Johnson? Thanks Bo-jo. Or let's lay that on Liz Truss! She was only there 50 days, it’s all her fault. Thanks Liz.
But let’s stay in Great Britain, because…
My guest is the Senator’s daughter who has been on this show multiple times, this time from Edinburgh, Scotland! She is attending the University of Edinburgh getting her Master’s degree in Art History. We talk about:
How wonderful and nice the people of Scotland are, dispelling the U.S. notion that everyone there is groundskeeper Willie from the Simpsons. The Art History Masters degree she is achieving specifically is in accessibility, and as I said in the previous episode, we’re not talking ramps and wider doorways, but accessibility in a broader sense. Is it accessible to all social classes, ethnicities and cultures and are they all represented in art museums? We talk about those little plaques next to the artwork that I almost never read. Are they accessible to all? I bring up something used in internet web content design and development called the Hemingway app. Hemingway’s style of writing, as you may already know, is very concise and direct. There’s not a lot of flowery language in it which allowed him to get to the point more quickly. It’s very efficient. And now… there’s an app for that. And it’s called hemingwayapp.com . It’s free. You go there, paste in your composition, or write in the page and the app will analyze your writing as you go. It will highlight areas where your sentences and paragraphs can be made more simple. We talk about her roommates in her flat… there’s 5 of em! She brings up the term “Cultural Capitol” which is a theory created by this french guy Pierre Bordieu who was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Seriously? There’s an occupation called Public Intellectual? What’s the annual salary of a Public Intellectual. I’m a private intellectual. I’m the most intellectual person in my bathroom at any given time. Back to Cultural Capital. I’m going to read you a few sentences about Cultural capital and the sentences are a little too complex to be comprehended by some individuals, which lowers their Cultural capital and creates further inaccessibility. Inaccessibility to knowledge. Confused? Me too.
Cultural capital is defined as the social assets of a person that can be used to increase one's chances of success in life. These assets can be either tangible, such as clothes or educational certificates, or intangible, such as knowledge or life experiences. While everyone has some form of cultural capital, those from higher social classes tend to have more of it. This is because they have greater access to resources that can help them develop their skills and talents. Additionally, they are more likely to inherit cultural capital from their families.
Cultural capital is not a static concept; it can change over time as people gain or lose access to resources. For example, someone from a lower social class who manages to get a college degree has increased their cultural capit
Happy Holidays from The Modern Moron recorded this day, the 25th of November, 2022. It’s Black Friday and there’s no place I would rather NOT be than a mall, A Walmart, a Best Buy or an Amazon. Also, I literally got back from the grocery store and I thought I was going to have to take out a Home Equity Loan. I just paid over $5 for a dozen eggs. What the ever-loving- @##$%? At what point is it going to be …. That’ll b e a dollar…. Another dollar…. Okay, two for one. Thanks Grandpa Joe… for all the inflation. It’s your fault. Your fault there’s global inflation. Whatever country your in, it’s that political leader’s fault that there is global inflation. If you live in Canada, Thanks Trudeau. If you live in China, thanks JinPing. Great Britain’s revolving door… thanks Sunak. Or can we still blame Boris Johnson? Thanks Bo-jo. Or let's lay that on Liz Truss! She was only there 50 days, it’s all her fault. Thanks Liz.
But let’s stay in Great Britain, because…
My guest is the Senator’s daughter who has been on this show multiple times, this time from Edinburgh, Scotland! She is attending the University of Edinburgh getting her Master’s degree in Art History. We talk about:
How wonderful and nice the people of Scotland are, dispelling the U.S. notion that everyone there is groundskeeper Willie from the Simpsons. The Art History Masters degree she is achieving specifically is in accessibility, and as I said in the previous episode, we’re not talking ramps and wider doorways, but accessibility in a broader sense. Is it accessible to all social classes, ethnicities and cultures and are they all represented in art museums? We talk about those little plaques next to the artwork that I almost never read. Are they accessible to all? I bring up something used in internet web content design and development called the Hemingway app. Hemingway’s style of writing, as you may already know, is very concise and direct. There’s not a lot of flowery language in it which allowed him to get to the point more quickly. It’s very efficient. And now… there’s an app for that. And it’s called hemingwayapp.com . It’s free. You go there, paste in your composition, or write in the page and the app will analyze your writing as you go. It will highlight areas where your sentences and paragraphs can be made more simple. We talk about her roommates in her flat… there’s 5 of em! She brings up the term “Cultural Capitol” which is a theory created by this french guy Pierre Bordieu who was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Seriously? There’s an occupation called Public Intellectual? What’s the annual salary of a Public Intellectual. I’m a private intellectual. I’m the most intellectual person in my bathroom at any given time. Back to Cultural Capital. I’m going to read you a few sentences about Cultural capital and the sentences are a little too complex to be comprehended by some individuals, which lowers their Cultural capital and creates further inaccessibility. Inaccessibility to knowledge. Confused? Me too.
Cultural capital is defined as the social assets of a person that can be used to increase one's chances of success in life. These assets can be either tangible, such as clothes or educational certificates, or intangible, such as knowledge or life experiences. While everyone has some form of cultural capital, those from higher social classes tend to have more of it. This is because they have greater access to resources that can help them develop their skills and talents. Additionally, they are more likely to inherit cultural capital from their families.
Cultural capital is not a static concept; it can change over time as people gain or lose access to resources. For example, someone from a lower social class who manages to get a college degree has increased their cultural capit
53 min